Great American Beer Fest 2014 Awards Wrap Up

We didn’t count all of them individually in this video, but this might be all 49,000 attendees that came in droves to the 2014 Great American Beer Festival. America’s largest celebration of craft beer keeps getting larger — and it was announced at the show that the 2015 festival, to take place from Sept. 24-26, will add an additional 90,000 square feet to its footprint.

The awards

The award competition field was huge. One thousand three hundred and nine breweries entered brews (5,507 beers judged in all) across 90 style categories — and a whopping 35 percent identified as first-time entrants.

As always, the American-style India Pale Ale category was one of the most popular with 279 entries. But there could be only three: